Evolutionary Patterns
Subtitle: Growth, Form, and Tempo in the Fossil Record
Contributors: Jeremy B. C. Jackson (Editor); Scott Lidgard (Editor); Frank K. McKinney (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226389301
Subjects: Palaeontology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Science; Evolution; Evolutionary paleobiology; Paleoecology; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: Forms that appear complex to the human eye can be generated by the iterative application of a small number of global rules (Ulam 1962, 1966).